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Rick Larg Dec 12, 2022:

@Lisa Indeed they are. White kidney beans. Commonly cooked in kitchens all over Spain

Lisa Rosengard Dec 12, 2022:

on the subject of beans, are they ever spoken of in Spanish as 'alubias;?

Rachel Fell Dec 12, 2022:

Agree with Jane M., and petits pois without a hyphen.

Lisa Rosengard Dec 11, 2022:

Fine peas, mange-tous or petits-pois may be but the others are green beans, not to be mistaken with the name of any religion.

neilmac (asker) Dec 11, 2022:

@Rick I'll glad it's not just me then!

Rick Larg Dec 11, 2022:

Fine or petits? Whilst agreeing that “petits pois” is an excellent and correct term for e.g. a menu, it is also true to say that if one searches online, Google Chrome, for example, provides lots of images of well-known brands selling tins or jars of “fine peas”. I confess I would have thought that to be an overtly literal translation from Spanish had I seen it anywhere else, but…

Jane Martin Dec 10, 2022:

@ Neil I enjoy food translations - probably because I grow my own veg and do a lot of cooking too. Acelga is Swiss chard, cardo is cardoon. Anyway the football wasn’t much fun if you were supporting England!

James A. Walsh Dec 10, 2022:

Petit pois, all the way! I'd forgotten we call them this in the UK/IRL, even though we buy them here all the time too... I tend to think of most fruit and veg in their Spanish names by default

neilmac (asker) Dec 10, 2022:

@Jane I don't often do food translations, and this one is proving rather difficult. For example, the difference between 'acelgas' and 'cardo', which dictionaries both give as chard. And then distinguishing between marmalades, jams, compotes and similar. I'd actually rather be watching the World Cup this Saturday night, but they're not showing the English France game on Spanish TV.

Jane Martin Dec 10, 2022:

@ Neil Looking at pictures they look to me like petit pois.

neilmac (asker) Dec 10, 2022:

Closing query I suppose I should close the query now. Please excuse any inconvenience.

neilmac (asker) Dec 10, 2022:

FWIW I did some searches before posting this, and found nothing. However I've just discovered they are apparently called "fine peas", which sounds rather odd to me. Whenever I buy these things I just think of them as "the little ones"…